Killer elephants, tigers, snakes and lobsters?…Oh yeah!

Last year, I co-wrote an article about “killer creature” man vs. animal themed stories in vintage men’s adventure magazines for HORRORHOUND, a nicely-produced periodical about horror and science fiction movies,…

MAN’S STORY, Feb. 1963: the good, the so-bad-it’s-good, and the gonzo (Part 2)…

My previous post here featured stories from the February 1963 issue of MAN’S STORY that were illustrated by three of the great pulp illustration artists who worked for men’s pulp…

RAGE magazine, January 1963, featuring a whip-mad sheik, a Beatnik brothel, man-starved nymphos, and more…

RAGE is one of my favorite low-budget men’s pulp magazines, though I have always been a bit puzzled by its name. Was it supposed to appeal to some subset of…

“Lace Panty Commandos” – From MAN’S BOOK to MALALAND MAGAZINES…

The phrase “Lace Panty Commandos” has become kind of an ongoing joke with some readers of the Men’s Adventure Magazines Facebook group that’s associated with this blog. I think it…

From Mafia hit men and farmers’ daughters to a 70-year-old “love captive.” (MALE magazine, May 1973 – Part 3)

For me, reading old men’s pulp mags is a like visual, literary and sociological treasure hunt. If you’re interested in things like vintage pulp fiction and pulp illustration art, and…